Improvement in kerosene-burners



E. J'. M. BECKER. KEROSENE BURNER.

Patented Feb. 27,1877.

N.PETERS, PlioTo-LITHoGmFl-lsn. WASHINGTON. D. C.

rrnD .STATES E. Jo'HN M. BECKER,

or New' YORK, N". Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN KEROSENE-BURNERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 187,803, dated February 27, 1877 application filed July 1o, 1876. i

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, E. JOHN M. BECKER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Burners for Kerosene and other Fluids, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

The invention relates to that kind of burners in which the duid is ignited directly without the intervention of a wick.

The invention has for its object the production of a burner which will operate by capillary attraction.

The invention 'consists in a novel construction of the burner, substantially as hereinafter described, whereby the desired result is obtained in a most efficient and advantageous manner.

In the drawing, Figure l represents a side elevation of my improved burner, in form of an Argand burner; Fig. 2, a vertical section of the same on the line zum; Fig. 3, a plan view of the burner. Fig. 4 is a partial broken side elevation of a modidcation of my improved burner, showing in dotted lines the supply-pipe and regulating-valve. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 represent burners of dat construction, embodying my invention. Figs. 8 and 9 are plan views of the modified burners represented in Figs. 6 and 7, respectively.

A is the burner, which, in Figs. l., 2, 3, and 4, is of cylindrical form. a is the outer, and a/ the inner, wall of the burner; both walls are united at their lower ends. both walls may be bilged out to form a receptacle' or receptacles, b, for the duid. The receptacles serve the purpose of providing the burning end or surface d of the burner with duid, and for storing some of the duid, that the flame be kept alive for a certain time, even should the duid in the fount be used up. That part of the walls of the burner A terminating in the burning end d is contracted, so as to form a narrow capillary slit or passage, c. The capillary passage c is designed to attract the duid to the burning end d of the burner A, and to allow the placing of the burner above the level of the duid in the reservoir, for the purpose of prevent- Either one or4 Ving the overdow of the duid through the capillary passage in the burning end.

For the purpose of keeping the dame ofthe burner from igniting the duid in the supplypipe, the chamber or receptacle b may be stuffed w'ith incombustible material; or partitions of porous material or wire-gauze may be inserted either in the burner or supplypipe.v I may also employ a burner having its sides entirely parallel, for effecting capillary attraction to its bl'lrning end of the duid in the supply-pipe.

Referring to the modification of the burner, as represented in Fig. 4 of the drawing, the number of chambers b is increased. Each chamber is connected with the next following by a passage or capillary passage, c', and the duid is introduced through the lowest chamber to the burning end. The supplypipe may, however, be connected to any place on the burner between the burning end and the lowest chamber.

The supply of duid to the burner may be regulated by means of an adjustable valve, so as to partly or entirely stop up theinterior of the supply-pipe. The end of the valve-stem and the tube incasing it should preferably project upward above the duid-level, to prevent unnecessary packing and overdow. The supply of duid may also be regulated by coinpressing the passages c between the chambers above the supply-pipe, or the capillary passage c of the burner.

The devices for regulating the supply of duid, as above indicated, will be made subject of a separate patent.

The burner represented in Fig..5 is of dat construction, and is furnished with but one large chamber and a short capillary passage, and is as well adaptable to a common globelamp as to a student-lamp.

The burners represented in Figs. 6 and 7 are also of dat construction, and have a number of chambers on their low/er end, perforated to allow the duid to enter between the walls, from whence it is carried tothe burning end. The burners of this construction are preferably stuffed with non-combustible and porous material, and designed to be used in common globe-lamps.

I do not confine my` elf to any particular lower partdireetnlly joinedto,thetsnpplyfpipg shape'in W'licl the Burning" t'lfe `lur'ner may be formed, nor to ther construction, num"- ber. or shape of the chamber.

I claim as my invention- The burner A, constructed to form the chamber b, which is p ryided -at itfsnpper end with the narrow capillary slit c, and at its tOvs'npfply the, ainef With fliel ,Wiljll'qnt the use Of a Wick, Substantially as Specified.

E. JOHN M. BECKER. Witnesses:

E..B.,SPERRY,..

FRED. HAYNES. 

